Anyone else think J.K Rowling is a spanko?

What do you get when you have a gorilla with a green thumb?

Hairy Potter....LOL

I just had to put this in, although it has nothing to do with the subject discussed....LOL

I actually thought the opposite, there were many times when CP could have been used, but wasn't. Hermione in particular when she walked out quite rudely on Trelawney's Divination class. Filch is a nutbar, he also wanted to bring back hanging the kids by their thumbs, he seems to enjoy torture, when he talks about whipping, he means the real thing like the cat or maybe he'd even like the knout.

Obviously when Harry had to write 'lines' with a magical quill that caused the writing to be cut into the back of his hand, eventually resulting in bleeding, as a detention punishment imposed by Dolores Umbridge (in THE ORDER OF THE PHOENIX), that was a physical punishment although of course nothing like a spanking.

In THE SORCERER'S (or PHILOSOPHER'S) STONE, a detention punishment for Harry, Ron, Hermione and Draco Malfoy was to go into the Forbidden Forest at night to help Hagrid track down whatever was killing unicorns there--Harry and Draco were even split off (accompanied by Fang, who looked fearsome but was "a bleeding coward" according to Hagrid) on their own, which was clearly rather risky for first-year students (eleven-year-olds), I'm figuring.

Nobody got hurt, although Harry did come face-to-face with a unicorn, but I'm still thinking that a good bare-bottom switching from Professor McGonagall (who'd assigned the kids that detention) might have been more appropriate than a potentially life-threatening nightime sojourn into the Forbidden Forest.

Well, that's the 'wizarding world' for you--look how high-risk a sport quidditch is... --C.K.

When looking at the punishment levied on Harry and others by Dolores Umbridge you do have to consider the bucket of insanity that gave it. I'm still bitter that she wasn't killed off in Deathly Hallows. The sojourn in the Forbidden Forest actually seemed to be a bit of fun, I'm pretty sure Harry was smiling until they found the dead unicorn.
It's not surprising that Rowlings created a boarding school environment where the kids thought of CP, there's something very 50's about Hogwarts and considering that she drew on works like Enid Blyton's Malory Towers and Elinor Brent Dyer's Chalet School to help create it, it would have been unusual if it hadn't been like that. Plus the timelines in the books are all messed up, Harry was born in the early 80's and Rowlings admitted she screwed up with times, she also based some of it on her own teenage experiences and I think she grew up in an era where CP wasn't totally unheard of.

I agree with Seegee. She might be a spanko: almost anyone might be, and my lips are sealed, but I was once in the old Janus shop when a very well-known personage came in and was clearly a regular customer. However, I think she's creating an atmosphere which draws on Dickens and other archaic school descriptions. Oh, and I haven't read any of the books or seen any of the films, but you can't avoid it. Even a load of people going round chanting "Hare Potter".

Can anyone recall the adult spanking hint in the HP books? One would think that if an author hints at adult spanking they must have a spanko tendency for sure.

I quoted one in my initial post on this thread, jools. There may be others, though.

Thanks Linda. This thread has inspired me to read all the HP books again hehe

I have not read any of the books or seen a whole film. But JK is a seriously sexy, beautiful woman, just made for spanking fun, either way ;-0. And I must express my disgust at the way she has been treated by the gutter press.

I say we should invite her to become a member of the Library here.